MARIA WILGOS 

An extremely sensitive, serene instrumentalist who plays Renaissance lute, Baroque lute, Baroque guitar, classical guitar and theorbo. In her daily work with ensembles, she regrets that she can't bring all of her instruments to one concert and play each one, so that you can benefit from her love of multi-instrumentalism. She began her musical education at the age of 11. She attended the Józef Elsner Secondary Music School in Warsaw in the guitar class. She studied lute at the Academy of Music in Cracow in the class of Prof. Jerzy Zak and at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the class of Anton Birula and Anna Kowalska. In 2012- 2015, she received the Scholarship of the Music Academy Rector for outstanding artistic achievements. In 2016, she graduated with the degree with honors. In the following years, she was busy playing concerts and raising her newborn children. In 2022, she became a laureate of the Hanseatic Ensemble courses in Lübeck, Germany. In addition, this year she will play a diploma in classical guitar.

 

Maria has been an active professional soloist, chamber musician and member of major orchestral ensembles for 13 years. She has given concerts in many cities throughout Poland, as well as in the United States, Canada, Austria (Johann Sebastian Bach - St. John Passion at the Musikverein), Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Görlitz, Zittau, Bauzen, Staatstheater in Cottbus, Music Academy in Trossingen), Italy, Macedonia and Slovakia. She had the opportunity to play with many well-known early music ensembles such as the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw (under the baton of Jan Willem de Vriend), Arte Dei Suonatori, {oh!} historical orchestra!, MACV (Warsaw Chamber Opera), Il giardino d'Amore Baroque Chamber Orchestra, La Tempesta, Intemperata (Bydgoszcz), Capella Regia Polona (Polish Royal Opera), ALTA early music ensemble, Diletto (Bialystok). She has participated in the recording of more than a dozen CDs. She has played at the 21st Bach Festival in Świdnica, the Kromer Festival Biecz, the Silent Music Festival in Toruń, the Bydgoszcz Baroque Scene, the Strefa Ciszy Festival in the Royal Łazienki Park, the Czarnoleski Festival of Arts, Music of the Baroque Masters, Cracovia Sacra, May with Early Music and many others.

 

This excellent basso continuo member already played many great Baroque works such as Lully - Armide, Händel - Rodelinda, Israel in Egypt, Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Fairy Queen, Hail! Bright Cecillia, Monteverdi - Orpheus, Coronation of Poppea, Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, Vivaldi - Violin Concertos, Corelli - Concerti Grossi, Leanardo da Vinci - Musical Rebus. Her solo repertoire includes works by John Dowland, Silvius Leopold Weiss, Robert de Visèe, Gaspar Sanz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Augustin Barrios-Mangore, Roland Dyens and many others.  

 

Maria Wilgos performs chamber music in the lute duo AbsoLutes with Klaudyna Zolnierek (also a lute player, theorist and guitarist), the Ribaldi vocal quartet and in a trio with soprano Helena Bregar and lutenist Witold Wilgos. This year she began working with Daniel Kurz in Germany. This year, she also begins collaborating with Wolfgang Kraemer in Bavaria and with the Lauten Compagney in Berlin. Privately, she is a mother of two preschoolers and lives in Warsaw. What she appreciates most about music is the challenge of the stage, as well as the freedom to express emotions and the joy of creating a friendly atmosphere and memories. In the future, she would like to help as many of the next generation develop their creativity as possible.